2.Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.Pathetic action."
Macaulay.

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.
E. Porter.

Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.